I create Victorian era historical dresses and this is a great tutorial for creating buttons that would be accurate for that time period.  I would like to share this tutorial on my blog frontierwomen.blogspot.com which is a combination of living history and historical costuming.  I would like to post a paragraph or two to pique the reader's interest and then link to your website for the rest of it.  Would this be permissible?  I have thoroughly enjoyed the newsletters that I receive from Sew Daily.  Thank you, Ann Dixon

I make 'buttons' for kids to have stitched on bags.  I use cabone rings but you could use key rings, or brass rings.  I use crochet thread, in various colors and after tying it on the ring, I make some thing like a blanket stitch, or half hitch that goes all around the ring.  Then I take the  crochet thread (with a needle) and stitch back and forth in one direction, neatly.  I anchor it in the thread on the back side of the ring.  Then I go across and weave it in and out in the other direction.  For the kids I can stitch it to their bags through the thread, but a shank can be made from side to side.

I have also used old fabric covered buttons that have seen better days in my sewing box, and if the fabric is strong enough, I make loops in colored thread. (Once again, crochet thread.  I have also used yoyos to cover the old button.  I usually have to add a thread shank for attaching.  I've also made spirals into fabric (made to fit the button cover), they start from the center and continue outwards.  I usually use an embroidery thread, and contrast it like using gold thread on black.